[2] The Villawood area is home to a large public housing estate constructed around the 1950s-1970s consisting of detached cottages, semi-detached townhouses, walk up apartments on Urana street, and formerly a Radburn design housing complex within a precinct between Villawood Road, Kamira Avenue & Kamira Circuit (behind the Woodville Shopping Village), which became infamous for serious social issues, such as drugs and anti-social youth crime, even eventually breeding a gang called "the Bronx boys", dabbling in the drug trade and car-rebirthing before the eventual demolition of the complex in 1998.

There has been rejuvenation and renovation of Woodville (Villawood) Place since with construction of the new supermarket and homegoods stores, a bakery, chemists, grocers and other shops.

A business park in Villawood holds enterprises concerning hardware products, furniture, auto parts and second-hand goods.

Thurina Park houses two multi purpose sporting fields that cater for soccer, cricket and baseball.

In addition to housing asylum seekers, people refused entry into the country at international airports and seaports may also be detained in the centre.